Sheesh, I remember playing the first one on my PSP and really enjoying it.

I wonder if it’s possible to jump back in to the series after all this time?

My wife doesn’t game either but holding a tablet for hours and months gave her “tennis elbow” and she was finally essentially ordered to quit by her doctor. Lmao.

This game is hella addicting.

I don’t remember the original looking that good, either. Weird.

So we’re literally biological computers and sleep is just a daily restart for stability purposes?

How mundane but useful.

I’m specifically referencing all the fear mongers who think the AI is some evil threat and are still against its usage even under such a fair and restrictive contract.

This is really the best of both worlds for all parties, and as far as I could tell, the only people that might suffer are the consumers if the quality of the AI isn’t very good, but everybody else is still getting paid the same and more.

If you’re upset about that just because of the letters, AI then yeah you deserve to lose your job.

What?

I have no idea how you got there from me noticing the pertinent points of the contract, but if it matters I think all that loot box shit should be regulated or maybe even made illegal.

The agreement has two parts–a development contract that governs the recording and creation of an AI voice (called a “digital replica” in the contract), and a contract that covers licensing and use of said digital replicas to develop a game.

In terms of compensation, voice actors will be paid a standard union fee for the initial recording session to create a digital replica, and further compensation if they wish to allow Replica Studio to continue to use the replica after a certain timeframe. Actors can also negotiate compensation for a replica to be created from previously recorded material, with the minimum payment equal to a standard recording session–this also covers deceased performers, if an agreement can be reached with their estate.

Actors can then license their digital replica to be used in games, with payment calculated per every 300 lines of dialogue or 3,000 words (with “words” also including other sounds such as monster noises.) Studios can also pay actors to get access to their digital replica for pre-production–for instance, using the AI voice for placeholder dialogue. If any of the replica’s dialogue is used in a publicly released version of the game, the actor is entitled to further compensation.

They’re going to literally be getting more money for letting a computer talk for them only in the places and ways they allow them to, yet some people are STILL angry just hearing the letters AI and that’s good enough for them.

Jesus Christ, at this point they deserve to lose their work.

It’s worth it for the controller alone.

It’s the first time since I plugged a rumble pack into my n64 controller, that I’ve felt they really did something to increase immersion with that one thing really connecting you to the action on screen.

Holy shit that lady is insane.

She even somehow managed to blame Obama for starting all of this?!? wtf?

It doesn’t do food but I highly recommend StrongLifts 5x5. I’d never lifted weights in my life and it got my going in my 30s and it’s been life changing.

One thing I’d add if you take it up is to start extremely light on the weights if you’ve never lifted, and most importantly, just try to be consistent. Turn each workout into a mental link on a chain you’re building internally and make sure you stick with the three times a week schedule. Don’t break the chain!

It only takes about 15-20 mins to complete the workout and you’ll be so much healthier and happier for doing it just three times a week.

Good luck!

*I use the iOS version with my Apple watch for easier tracking, but this is the android version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stronglifts.app&hl=en_US&gl=US

My rebuttal is that it’s simply unreliable to ask random faculty members to tell you the truth about things that make their school look bad.

That’s not unreasonable, even for yes, this huge liberal hippie.

“We called each school multiple times for 3 months” tells me absolutely nothing. It could have been two calls, it could have been two thousand, but they are extremely short on details for some reason.

And since they outsourced it to a third party it adds another layer of obfuscation that makes it difficult to answer anything.

And finally, the way they settled on not being able to confirm or deny most of the shootings, but still phrased it as if kids shooting each other at school wasn’t a big deal. Like, seriously?

I’m very disappointed in the author of this NPR article, which usually does their due diligence on these issues.

The remaining 59 could not be confirmed or disconfirmed by NPR.

Let me get this straight NPR hired out another group to call the schools and ask them if they had shootings and then if the person answering that day said no or couldn’t confirm or deny it, they just said okay thanks and then counted it as not a shooting?

Lol wut

Good thing school faculty never lies about negative things, I guess!

The two teens used the pretense of doing cocaine to lure Ghey to the park, where they reportedly used the codeword “gay” to launch the frenzied and deadly attack on the unsuspecting trans teen.

Where tf they getting coke at like 15?

Probably part 2, because it’s got the best evolution of the originals gameplay, without going too crazy deep into mechanics like the later games do.

Well this sucks.

Loved this dudes contributions to the genre.

You’re totally right but this is the android community…so we’re gonna need you to start sounding like the echoes here or you can leave.

/s

It’s true that water is itself unstable because of the pressure or lack thereof, but I was always talking about water in its ice form my friend, you should read the article I linked from NASA, it’s super neat!

There’s plenty of ice at the Martian poles – mostly made of water, although carbon dioxide, or dry ice, can be found as well – but those regions are too cold for astronauts (or robots) to survive for long.

https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/mars/nasa-is-locating-ice-on-mars-with-this-new-map/#:~:text=There’s plenty of ice at,Ice Mapping project comes in.

lol for this area, yes, but there actually is water ice on Mars!

Perseverance and its helicopter companion, Ingenuity, landed in Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021, to search for signs of ancient microbial life.

It still blows my mind we live in a time statements like that are so casual to be mostly forgotten by the time you’re at the next paragraph.

Astounding work by the engineers and scientists and all the people at NASA.